A depiction of life in wartime England during the Second World War. Director Humphrey Jennings visits many aspects of civilian life and of the...

British film written and directed by Humphrey Jennings, filmed in documentary style showing the lives of firefighters through the Blitz in World War...

An Englishman and Frenchman sharing a hotel room discover their children are fighting on the same side, French Resistance and R.A.F.

A narrator recounts the state of Great Britain near the end of WWII via a visual diary for the titular baby boy born in September 1944.

A woman blames herself for her husband's death. To overcome her grief and her guilt she becomes a nurse but then a patient dies while under her care.

A BAFTA award nominated fictional drama about young Molly Slade who awakens one morning in a depressed state that gradually leads to a complete...

Reported cases of sexually transmitted disease took a sharp rise during and after World War II, but as this film testifies, sexual license amongst...

A Letter From Ulster (1943). Northern Ireland's greatest film director Brian Desmond Hurst directed the film and his assistant director was fellow...

The true story of the massacre of a small Czech village by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in Wales.

A doctor talks about the number of injuries and deaths resulting from automobile accidents.

Poetry by Rudyard Kipling, John Milton, and William Blake, and excerpts from speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill, all read by Laurence...

Documentary style presentation of the work of RAF Coastal Command. Shows their work in protecting convoys and attacking enemy aircraft, ships and...

Focuses on the work of the Air Transport Auxiliary or ATA. By 1941, literally hundreds of RAF fighters and bombers needed to be flown each day...

How Britain coped with a Christmas during the war.

In a follow up to 'A Welcome to Britain', Burgess Meredith returns to look at a post-war Britain.

Part of BFI collection "Police and Thieves."

British educational documentary film about the principal instruments in the modern symphony orchestra, illustrated through Benjamin Britten's...

Short WW II documentary

A documentary short on The Festival in London.

Edward R. Murrow narrates Humphrey Jennings' short documentary about life in England during wartime.